“That doesn’t mean that I am going to change the same tone I have been using for 30 years. What the hell is the difference? If you guys can’t separate tone from substance, that is your problem not mine. Stop being such whiners about tone.” –MGL

7 responses to “Baseball Prospectus Disowns the Idiot with the Stats Software Package”

Not related to the Swartz thing, but what exactly has Wyers done at BP since he joined? Some things have gone away; some reports now have a mickey mouse font; some things have been 6 months late. Guy has a ridiculous attitude and as far as I can tell zero production (other than the abortion known as rest-of-season PECOTA). [Nice King Felix projection].

I never paid a lot of attention to SIERA, but I wouldn’t call it harebrained, shoddy or ignorant. Matt takes the high road and defends his work point by point on “The Book” blog.

Colin however couldn’t seem to resist laying on the snark that’s better placed on a website such as this, not a mainstream publication that BP is. He could have easily said “Matt’s moved on, and taken SIERA with him to Fangraphs. Upon further review, we at BP have decided to no longer carry SIERA for these reasons…”.

I have no problem with a public debate on the validity of methodology. It’s a good thing. Whenever I’ve published something I’ve always been somewhat anxious to see what will be said about it on Tango’s blog, where I knew I would have to go to defend my work. It’s something I anticipated and believe is necessary as our method of peer review.

But let’s stick to the evidence and keep it classy. You might quote MGL saying “stop being such whiners about tone” but we don’t have to be dicks. I think I get along great with MGL, regardless of how much we agree on. I’ve now stopped caring about Colin.